Andhra Pradesh, which basked in the glory of being a leading educational hub, is now staring at the problem of plenty as the professional colleges mushroomed in the state have registered poor response.
With the Himachal Pradesh High Court last week quashing the State Private Educational Institutions (Regulatory) Act of 2010, the state now lacks a mechanism to monitor its 16 private universities and an equal number of private institutes, mainly engineering colleges, officials said on Friday.
The commission to regulate the private educational institutions of Himachal Pradesh now is invalid and so are its assessment orders, circulars, and notices.
With private engineering colleges in the state facing a large number of student vacancies, some of them are resorting to unscrupulous means to fill up seats.
In the wake of the rise in number of seats going unclaimed after counselling year after year, some private engineering colleges are mulling conversion into an arts and science institutions.
With thousands of seats in private engineering colleges lying vacant in recent years, some colleges are mulling the option of converting the technical institution into an arts and science institution, as there is a rise in the enrolment in arts and science courses.
Here's a question for India's education-obsessed middle class and upper middle class parents: Would you send your son or daughter to a well-funded, well-appointed, classy private university backed by some of India's best names in business and academia but one that offers a liberal arts education?
Private universities in state will invite trouble for themselves for affiliating colleges. In the wake of escalating number of complaints regarding affiliation/ franchise centres being distributed freely, University Grants Commission has yet again warned private universities not to flout the norms or face the music as per the private universities regulation, 2003. The commission, citing regulations, has said that private universities being unitary in nature cannot affiliate any college or institute for conducting courses leading to award of its diplomas, degree or other qualifications.
Eighty students from Kashmiri families, who took admission in a Fatehgarh Sahib-based engineering college under the Prime Minister's Special Scholarship Scheme, have alleged that the college duped them and left them in a situation where they cannot even seek admission in another college.
Teaching in private colleges throughout the country was affected on Friday as thousands of teachers were on mass casual leave and participated in a rally held at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
Maharashtra Government is mulling setting up of a special recruitment board on lines of MPSC and UPSC for the appointment of lecturers and staff to private colleges, minister for Higher and Technical Education Rajesh Tope has said.
Medical and dental college aspirants are worried about losing out on seats despite being meritorious. A schedule for admissions to private medical and dental colleges to fill seats that are vacant after the second round gives students only one day to attend counselling, confirm seats and pay tuition fees.
All the private educational institutions will be closed for a week from Monday across the state, as per the decision taken by Samaikyandhra JAC, to intensify the agitation.
The Gujarat industries department signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with private enterprises today to set up five centres of excellence in three universities and two industrial training institutes (ITIs) in the state, a statement issued by the Gujarat state government said.
CM Nitish Kumar laid the foundation stone of Lord Buddha International Institute of Medical Sciences (LBIIMS) at Beldari Chak in rural Patna on Saturday and said it would serve as a convergence centre for different aspects of medical science. The institute would be linked with four major places at Nalanda, Rajgir, Bodh Gaya and Vaishali where primary health centres (PHCs) would be opened and, later on, linked with this medical college. The LBIIMS will have 300 beds for poor patients and is first private medical college in the state capital.
At a time when government universities and colleges are gearing up for students’ union elections, most private universities and colleges in state are shying away. This is despite the Lyngdoh Committee strongly recommended to conduct elections in all institutions.
A division bench of MP high court has directed the state government to adhere to a 50:50 distribution ratio of post graduate seats in the state-run and private medical colleges. Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice Vimla Jain made it mandatory for the director, medical education to follow the directions during counseling for medical PG seats scheduled this month.
Over 50 study centres affiliated to various universities with doubtful credentials are functioning in the city. None of these study centres are authorized to award degrees and diplomas that are recognized by universities affiliated to the University Grants Commission (UGC).
The city's premier academic organization, Deccan Education Society (DES), has decided to move a proposal to the state government to set up a private university under the government's model guidelines to set up such self-financed universities.